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Matter & Energy:

Periodic Table & the Elements search created by our librarian, Mr. T:

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  Periodic Table Resources:

  • Interactive periodic table - students get hints as properties of each element & grouping: Interactive

  • Videos of introducing the elements in the periodic table: Univ. of Nottingham

  • Resources for teaching chemistry: Learn Chemistry

  • Interactive Periodic Table: Visual Elements Periodic Table

  • Cool interactive periodic table created by teens on Glogster : AdVENTURE periodic table

  • Extensive list of games for learning the elements: Jefferson Lab

  • More cool interactives & games for learning the periodic table:

    
    

    http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/a2.html

    
    

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    http://www.preparatorychemistry.com/element_name_symbol.htm

    
    

    http://www.abpischools.org.uk/activescience/module5/home.html

  • Videos of chemistry in real world - cosmetics, farming, etc.: RSC

Force, Motion & Energy:

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• Science of NFL Football: Newton's First Law of Motion - inertia

• Science of NHL Hockey: Kinematics -speed, velocity & acceleration

• Science of NFL Football: Kinematics - Position, Velocity & Acceleration

• Science of NFL Football: Newton's Second Law of Motion -Law of Force & for the lesson plans: lessonopoly

Earth & Space:

Space & Astronomy:

• MoonKAM - Middle School students acquiring knowledge on NASA projects!: MoonKAM

• Chief Scientest of NASA explains our Solar System with video to students: YouTube

• Video of the Universe -as seen traveling from the earth: TheKnownUniverse

• The Real Scale of our Universe - project on sreeen or wall for appreciation of scale!!!: BBC Future

• Several Interactives for learning the scale of our universe to atoms

• Definitely play Scale of the Universe 2 -(Teachers will need bypass to use):

• Powers of Ten video: see the scale of the universe and atoms: School Tube

• Extensive resource for space exploration: images, video, audio, missions, lesson plans, and much more (go to education for Teacher Resources: lesson plans, etc.) :

• Students learn facts about our solar system via interactive slides (at site: look below for 11 videos on space) : HistoryChannel

• Launch a spacecraft to Mars and help solve the mystery of life on Mars - great interactive: NASA

• Star life-cycle interactive: aspire.cosmicray

• Book- fun and engaging book on Astronomy by Basher -520 GRE

• To see the amazing photo of our home taken from over 4 billion miles away! Our lives are fragile and precious: PaleBlueDot

The earths rotation & seasons:

• Introduce the earth's hemisphere, axis, seasons, etc. with this interactive -> then students do the activities: Teacher's Domain

• Great interactive to experiment with earth's tilt & its effect on temperature in all seasons: mcgraw-hill

Moon phases:

• Introduce the lunar cycle by viewing this video: manchester.ac.uk

• Video of moon phases for the entire 2013 year in 5 min.: YouTube

• See the moon's revolving and rotating (from earth & space) and interact to view various stages of the lunar cycle: PBS

• Students predict phases of the lunar cycle- several levels of difficulty: sciencenetliniks

Physics:

• Newton's 2nd law of motion: Watch NASA astronauts demonstrate mass vs. weight in space: PBS

  
  

  -also your weight on others worlds interactive (scroll down to play)

• Newtons 3rd law of motion: Astronauts walk in space and demostrate this law: PBS

• Principle of the Conservation of Momentum - interact with weights on the air track to learn principle: PB

• Book - engaging and fun book on Physics in our library by Basher - 530 GRE

Plate Tectonics, Earth's Soil & Topography:

• Great video instruction of plate tectonics and their causing major geological events: Shake, Rattle & Slide

• Interactive - learn theory and history and action of plate tectonics: ICT magic

• Interactive - learn about plate tectonics and volcanoes & build your own volcano & watch it erupt: Virtual Volcano

• Quality videos on several topics from plate tectonics to volcanoes to soil erosion: learner.org

• Erosion: Videos and activities and quizzes: BrainPop

• Engaging video of erosion and weathering - explained with a simple experiment: YouTube

• Beautiful photos of various types of topograhy and erosion: National Geographic

• Use Google Earth to show satellite photos of area of San Antonio to use along with the Erosion Activity below: Google Earth

• Soil Erosion Activity: Great list of sequential questions students respond to in order to investigate and analyze erosion in a specific area: Dirtmeiste

• Book- fun and engaging book on Rocks and Minerals by Basher - 552 GRE

• Disasters - lists and information on 100's natural disasters throughout history: Timelines

Weather:

• Weather Archive - get map of weather for any day back to 2001: NOAA

• Weather History - get temp., pressure, wind, etc. for a specific day : almanac.com

• Precipitation Simulation - interactive - learn how temp, wind, etc. effects weather: HTwins.net

-It has an Air Pressure Simulation interactive too.-(Teachers will need bypass to use)

Natural Disasters unit:

natural disasters.docx

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• Global Warming research: http://www.infotopia.info/climate_change.html

Organisms & Environment:

Biodiversity unit:

Biodiversity.doc

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Reasoning & critical thinking skills:

• Interactive with inquiry-oriented activities to improve student proportional reasoning skills: Ask a Biologist

Websites with vast collections of interactives, engaging videos, & lessons on all topics of science:

• Science360 (also ipad app & phone radio app)

• Extensive collection of interacitves, videos, etc. of all subjects of science

Journal for & by students!